Tomorrow marks the 71st anniversary of the end of World War II. Although the Germans had surrendered earlier in 1945, on 8 May, the Japanese didn’t surrender until 2 September 1945.
Aside from the horror and death in all the battles, families at home, whether in Europe or the United States and elsewhere had endured many lean years, beginning with the Great Depression.
Prosperity was still years away – Britain was still on rationing when Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II, married Prince Phillip in 1947.
Personally, I think I would probably have tossed these the moment I was able, but, for whatever reason, Earl and Pearl Stufflebean saved not one, but two, of their wartime ration books:
War Ration Book Four
It is an interesting memento of difficult times long ago.
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talk about a gold mine of information! I just stumbled onto on of the posts about the Japanese Internment Camps. I’ve never seen so much information about them before. I have lived most of my life very near the Minidoka and Hunt camps in southern Idaho. If only I could go back to my school days and talk more with some of my Japanese friends. I bet that their families were directly involved in those camps, but I never heard any of them mention it. In fact, they and their families were some of the sweetest, mellowest people I’ve ever known.